It might be easier to use the Find and Replace capabilities of Word to replace the formatting. However, Word 2013 (and I think Word 2010 as well) has a selection tool that can be used to select noncontiguous blocks of text with similar formatting. You start by finding the first occurrence of the text that has the formatting you want to change and select it. Go under the Home tab in the Editing group and there is a Selection menu. In that menu is an option for selecting text with similar formatting. If you choose that option the next occurrence of text with the same formatting as your selection is selected. If you use CTRL+Y repeatedly other blocks of text throughout the document are also selected. JAWS does not report it correctly as if you use the Read Selected Text command JAWS only reads the first block of similar text selected. However, using CTRL+Y several times does select the other blocks of similarly formatted text in the document. You can check this out by copying after using CTRL+Y several times and pasting into a new document. This will confirm that the blocks of text were selected even though not reported to be by JAWS.
Take care. Brian Lee [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of abdulaziz dapilin Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2016 7:28 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] How to select non-contiguous text Thanks. Have just realized that perhaps the exact thing can't happen as of now. Maybe in the future. When selecting non-contiguous text, or even items from a list view, user needs to hold down the control while navigating to the next text or item to be selected. There's no problem when selecting non-contiguous items in a list view with keyboard. However, I wonder how to do it in a document. Sounds impossible because we also use control key in text navigation, and pressing any arrow keys will immediately unselect selected text. On 4/24/16, Adrian Spratt <[email protected]> wrote: > My sense is that JAWS operates too linearly for this to work as you > describe. However, this idea occurs to me as a workaround. With your > main document open, start a new one in which you pre-set the font > attributes you want to apply to the passages in question. Then use > MS's paste special > (control-alt-v) to paste each item into this second file. If it works, > the first passage will be formatted the way you want, and then you can > substitute it in the original file, again using the paste special command. > Note that in this command, you select the format with the up and down > arrows. > > I haven't tested this idea, and it may take a little tweaking. I also > realize it wouldn't be as fast as what you'd like to do, but it would > certainly be faster than reformatting each passage every time. > > -----Original Message----- > From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of abdulaziz dapilin > Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2016 1:35 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] How to select non-contiguous text > > What I meant is not for copying and pasting. Here's the scenario. I > would like to select non-contiguous text in a large document to apply > format and attribute changes at ones. For sighted user, they simply > accomplish the task by holding down the control while selecting text > from different parts of the document using the mouse pointer. I don't > know if it is possible to do it solely with the keyboard. > > On 4/24/16, Kimsan <[email protected]> wrote: >> Noncontiguous so each word would not be selected. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] >> On Behalf Of Pinky >> Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2016 8:35 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] How to select non-contiguous text >> >> Hi, >> To copy one word at a time hold down the ctrl+shift key then right >> arrow for all the words you want to highlight. As you arrow right >> Jaws will announce the words that are being highlighted. >> >> Then after you have highlighted just press the Ctrl+C to copy then go >> to where you want to put the copied text and then just press the >> Ctrl+V to paste it where you want them. >> >> If you want to select all the words on a page just do ctrl+A then >> Ctrl+C to copy then ctrl+V to paste. >> >> Ed >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] >> On Behalf Of abdulaziz dapilin >> Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2016 9:21 PM >> To: jaws-users-list >> Subject: [JAWS-Users] How to select non-contiguous text >> >> Hi folks. I wonder how to or if its possible to select non-contiguous >> text in word using keyboard. I am pretty sure that for users who >> could use mouse pointer it is possible. Have anybody from this group >> knows how to do it using the keys? >> >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: >> http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ >> >> >> >> For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: >> http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ >> >> For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: >> http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ >> > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
